[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Telework

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DoD applies telework, subsidies to ease BRAC moves

Federal Times
By STEPHEN LOSEY
April 20, 2009

Elizabeth Ahlersmeyer has some tough decisions to make over the next two 
years.

Her job as a program analyst for the Defense Information Systems Agency 
is moving from Arlington, Va., to a new building at Fort Meade, Md., in 
early 2011. She likes working for DISA, but the prospect of fighting 
Washington's notorious traffic while commuting more than 30 miles from 
her home in Alexandria, Va., to Maryland - which will probably take at 
least 50 minutes each way — doesn't thrill her. Neither does selling her 
house in the current housing market. Neither does searching for a new 
job, since she's happy with DISA's work life and employee development 
programs.

"I'm weighing quite a few factors," Ahlersmeyer said.
Ahlersmeyer isn't alone. Roughly 36,000 civilian Defense Department 
employees are due to be relocated over the next three years as part of 
the base realignment and closure, or BRAC, process.

Defense Department agencies are taking some unique steps to hold on to 
as many of them as possible. They are building Web sites where employees 
can find benefits to help them move or other job opportunities elsewhere 
in Defense. Some want to expand the use of telework to accommodate 
employees who don't want to move closer to their new workplaces.

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For the entire article, see
http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=4044658

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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